The Wallops Island study site Chincoteague Quadrangle
Photographic Essay
of the
Wallops Island Site Virginia
The photographic essay focuses on Wallops Island in Virginia
(Figure 3.1). Photographs of selected wetland and coastline locations are
digital camera images taken by the WETMAAP Development Team, May 2008 (Figure 3.2).
The photographic essay is for use with a series of aerial photographs, topographic maps, wetland and upland habitat maps, and selected materials that assist in the identification of changes of wetland and coastline habitats.
The photographic essay identifies habitat changes within the coast of the Wallops Island. The essay shows representative examples of fresh open water-lakes and channels, forested wetland, wetland scrub-shrub, upland agricultural, upland range, and urban.
Figure 3.1: Proximal Location
The Wallops Island study site Chincoteague Quadrangle
Figure 2: Wallops Island Photo Essay
Ground Photograph Locations With Line- of- Sight
Plate numbers correspond with circled numbers on the reduced section (Wallops Island site) of the Chincoteague quadrangles. Arrows indicate directions of line-of-sight.
